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does despite biden's claim that his house was on fire when he took office, the recovery was well underway, making green off going great questions arising over john kerry's business dealings and his future climate as he champions biden's agenda. as biden pulls u.s. troops out of afghanistan al-qaeda is promising more on offense against america. and you tonight near governor andrew cuomo blocking the release of the true number of nursing home deaths in the state while the course also blaming president trump. after a record-breaking surge of migrants of the southern border, president biden now claims of crisis of the border is under control. a college professor denounces one of her students for daring to call the police euros.

i am gerry baker and for elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" start right now. gerry: president joe biden continues his u.s. tour selling his tax and spend agenda, today in philadelphia the president promoted his infrastructure plan including $80 million for rail, much of that will go to amtrak which is been losing money consistently over a long period of time, is this yet another example of throwing taxpayer money at problems. take a look at this. >> my american jobs plan i propose spending $10 billion a year on passenger rail and freight rail. of this, two thirds of amtrak routes including the northeast corner nationwide. were talking about union jobs as

i said in taking care of the writers, laying track, fixing bridges, tunnels, not under modernizing stations and preparing despite allies infrastructure. gerry: let's bring in beth fan died the house transportation and infrastructure committee. thank you for joining me. >> they stand for having me i appreciate the opportunity to answer questions. gerry: we know where the president loves trains, he's like a kid with a toy train set. any loves it, he's going to spend tons of money on amtrak amtrak has been losing taxpayer money for years and years and years. what is the point of this and how much more is is going to cost. >> i hope you did a put me on to defend this program, quite honestly i cannot. it's a great question is what $80 billion studies directing towards amtrak, you look amtrak

employees 20000 people, he's worried about jobs, why is he not directing it towards freight rail which is what we need right now which has over a million folks that they employ. this is another opportunity to throw billions of dollars of police states, that seems to be his focus on if you think about the dollars adding up, how are they paying for those dollars at what cost an opportunity cost, infrastructure that is thrown out with no chance. treat, no opportunity and no details, followed by 1.8 trying in dollars of what they're calling infrastructure but the new terminology is human infrastructure that doesn't have roads or bridges in at all. so you're looking at a $4 trillion spend and it's not touching the water infrastructure that we need and what we need honestly to be put into competitive globally. those things have gone out the

window. gerry: there is a case for restructure, a lot of republicans support genuine infrastructure spending and you talked about possibly improving the railway network for freight and airports and roads but as you said tiny fraction of the president's proposal. do you think there is a chance that maybe republicans can actually come up with a plan for infrastructure themselves so they can get more directed towards what's needed in larger in the month of labor unions. >> to get on the transportation infrastructure committee were the exact reasons you said, it should be the nonpartisan committee that we have in congress, highways, roads, bridges are not republican or democrat. they are good paying jobs that you put into building those critical infrastructure and their what we need to stay competitive. under the last year you have seen what's happened during the pandemic and the importance of

moving goods and getting services out to individuals when they needed the most. we seem to be failing at that, only 6% of the 2.3 training dollar package that even includes roads and bridges. if you're very generous in your definition of infrastructure you're looking at 24%. but the vast majority of the cost are for green new deal phase one, paying for electronic service stations for technology that may or may not be our future, there is a lot of other r&d projects that are going into looking at the carbon footprint and were picking winners and losers. when i say we the biden administration is picking winners and losers and spending trillions of dollars. gerry: when the president addressed the congress about 500,000 charging stations on the highway network for electric cars and he said those built by

the member of the international brotherhood of electric workers as though that is the purpose of this, it is supposedly a green program and a lot of reasons why there's good things that can be done in terms of green infrastructure but it seems to be about providing employment for labor unions, reward for labor union for democratic candidates. >> i'm all for working families, we need to open up more job opportunities, what i seen from this president he says one thing and his actions do something completely different. if you're really worried about jobs why was his executive order to kill thousands of jobs. if he's worried about working families why won't he help open the schools to get the kids back in schools so families can go back to work. he talks about wanting to expand the economy and he's crushing the economy crushing policies that will do the exact opposite. we have a lot to go, i'm really anxious to work with him on a

bipartisan manner, so far republicans have not been at the table, the huge multi trillion dollar program hasn't even been brought before the transportation and for structure committee. gerry: thank you, we have to leave it there but thank you for that, enjoy your weekend. joe biden is taking credit for an economy that was already booming when he took office, congress is attacking the previous administration. >> 100 days ago america's house was on fire, we had to act, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of speaker pelosi, the majority leader schumer and the overwhelming support of the american people, democrats, independents and republicans, we did act. gerry: joining us now former economic advisor to president trump steve moore, the house was on fire on january 20, less than a hundred days later, the booming u.s. economy, what do you make of it.

>> i take this personally because they did help donald trump who put together an incredible program, you crated the was poverty rate in the history of the united states, incredibly low unemployment and a surplus of 7 million jobs in this country, wages went up and then if you look back about nine months ago if you look at what the forecast was, almost every economist on the left and the right said it would take several years to get out of this crated economy the heavens hit so hard with covid, if you look in your newspaper today the wall street journal showed this incredible v-shaped recovery that we've had in the last nine months, recovery angelina july, it didn't begin in january, we seen a much better recovery and much swifter recovery than virtually any other country that we compete with. much faster than europe and

japan and all the other countries. i think biden deserves a lot of credit for a vaccine distribution program, vaccine is a stimulus, you know that, we don't need trillions of dollars of spending, we need to get people vaccinated and businesses reopen. i think joe biden would've been smart to salute donald trump, say thank you donald trump for the vaccine in getting this started working to complete the job but they cannot bring themselves to do that. gerry: you make a good point, i remember when we talk to you and others at the time, there was a lot of concern last year that even with the recovery came i would be slow. if you compare this to the recovery after the financial crisis in 2009, this is a dramatic must enter much faster recovery, people were concerned that we have scarring in the economy that it would take some time for the jobs to come back, we come right back, why do you think there hasn't been, so far,

the long-term damage that some people fear there would be last year. >> this recovery has surprise me, i was a skeptic, it's a testament not just to trump but are private businessmen and women that people run great company small and large who have brought this economy. were 98% way back, which is pretty amazing given what we've been through, shows a dynamism of a private capitalist free market system. i wanted to mention one other thing, if we cut taxes, tax rates not because we love corporations and i went on to help the rich, we did this because we wanted to make america more competitive place, we wanted to bring jobs back to the united states among other things, lowering our tax rate so we were competitive with china and get unto japan and germany and so many other countries. we did that and it worked, the left loves to talk about science, we had a scientific

experience, we had about a trillion dollars of capital, in fact i was talking to larry kudlow, he said the numbers estimate $1.5 trillion that he brought to the united states that was repeat during this country from the rest of the world because in no small part we cut the tax rates. why would joe biden raise them up again will get the opposite results in the capital that will flow out of the united states. gerry: thank you very much, the u.s. economy is recovering much more quickly than any other country in the world including the european economies and joe biden seems to be intent on turning the u.s. into one of the european economies by his policy. thank you for joining me. gerry: kt mcfarland is here to weigh in the questions arising over john kerry's past business dealings and his future as he champions biden's green agenda, not only one of the biden administration with questionable business ties

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every nation has a stake in the climate issue. gerry: that is john kerry the man responsible for saving the planet, in the role it is likely he will maintain and influence over the u.s. industry environmental policy. previous business texts to a number of firms in the energy space following his time as secretary of state including consulting fees for the rise fund the firm with renewable energy portfolio joining me too discuss this deputyli security advisor kt mcfarland, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, this stinks to high heaven, is a senior official of the biden administration john kerry should have to abide by the white house at the guidelines in his argument, he has complied, he sold the investments that he had or is going to in a timely fashion, the problem is he

already made the money by the huge infrastructure bill, the stocks and other companies have already gone up. by selling them after three months, six months, eightht mons to comply he already made his fortune. i think it stinks to high heaven, when i was a member of the trump administration we had to dive and everything we can only invest in government bonds, treasury bonds or in government approved line trust, i think somebody is giving him a ride. gerry: the divestitures are requireder and very wealthy man and it's hard to imagine i that anything and everything that he does in his role of climate is going to have some impact, positive or negative on energy companies particular green energy companies and its extraordinary even if you were to buy this now that he had

these investments and he had them at a time when they birdie benefited from a lot of what the president hasf been proposing. >> it's worse than that because he used to own stocks in oil and gas companies, he sold those before those went down, the whole thing is this the government ethics department there a lot of discussion to say this is allowed and this iss an allowed for john kerry say all recuse myself, there get a spent $6 trillion and as she said there's very little, that isn't going to somehow benefit from v the windfall spend a thought. gerry: you mentioned your investment oil companies, it's like he's practicing arbitrage by selling his oil stocks while maintaining green energy and is green energy investment in coming along and recommending to the president a whole series of

policies that will favor green energy andol disfavor oil. gerry: is played both sides but the interesting thing if he's divested himself are the oil and natural gas, once he apparently is still holding onto other green energy jobs, not only gives he doing arbitrage he's doing it pretty successfully and not unethically. >> he is signing an ethics pledge to say he won't participate in any decisions but we know that is not enough, don't we. >> of course it is not enough in $6 trillion there's an awful lot of money that will go into different places and the other thing he has been allowed to keep his own personal trust, i know in the trump administration people had line trust even if they met all the requirements, the government's office says that's not good enough you have to divest yourself of everything, the other thing that

expand upset, steve ratner and the obama administration, multi-millionaire investor, a far left guy, he was in charge of the government bailout of the automobile industry, he was on a new shows yesterday morning and said what bothers him about the spending is not the inflation in the deficit but government, how will they execute this, they have to start from scratch and they'll spend $6 trillion, there's an opportunity not just for john kerry making some money on the side but it's huge they won't be able to execute an awful lot ofnd money wasted in fraud in every other way. they're charging the american people every man woman and child will have to pay $16 per year for the green energy proposal, that's an awful lot of money. gerry: it's a good point, you can't really get the money out of the door fast enough, just on

the investment opportunities to spend that money efficiently. i wonder if john kerry does a lot of flooding and him flying around the jet, any investments in private companies, we should see where he's going to keep those, thank you for joining us. gerry: former state department official on al-qaeda promising war on all fronts of americas, the removal of u.s. troops from afghanistan is underway. >> it is a recognition that the radical islamic ideology in the war that there conducted against civilization as we know it is a iogenerational issue, not something that will be open five or ten years and a modest commitment like that gives us insurance and guarantees the al-qaeda and nicest will not attack the american people. it is not about nation building in afghanistan, it is about the protection of the american

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take over, let's talk about the scenarios with former state department official christian whiton. thank you for joining me. >> we spoke about this before we talk about how president trump wanted to pull u.s. forces out of ghana stan andul president biden has announced it, it's become pretty clear that military leaders in the u.s. and nato and other nato countries are pretty unhappy with this decision and they think it's over hasty and it could lead to real instability, what do you think? >> i think it could lead to instability, the right decision to make, the reason that president biden articulated in nshis address to congress to get the people who planned and executed 9/11 and to send a message to the people who hosted, the taliban if you host people who strike the united states there will be a very significant cost to pay 20 years later in ten years after bin laden was killed, that point has been made anyone around the

globete, if you attack the unitd states there will be serious consequences, will there be a civil war in afghanistan, there is one going on right now, will there be instability, yes, i'd doubt though be a follow-up with the taliban and raise their preferably all flat, but certainly will not look like beverly hills. gerry: anthony blinken has said free riders in the region has an interest themselves in keeping the country stable, take a listen to this. >> no one has an interest in the civil war and afghanistan, the afghan people don't, i don't think ultimately neither the afghan government or the taliban do, none of afghanistan neighbors do, neighbors and other countries in the region that have basically been free riders for the last 20 years as we've been engaged to our nato allies and partners who are going to have to decide given

their interest in a stable afghanistan given the influence that they have whether they're going to use that influence in a way that keeps things within thf 40-yard lines. gerry: what do you think, it makes sense, does it sound like an invitation for russia and pakistan and iran to play a bigger role in afghanistan? >> probably not but it doesn't mean it's going to happen to put on the defensive afghanistan, china surelyy doesn't want more active jihadist groups in the region considering what it's doing to muslim uighurs in its own country with a secretary, analogy really w breaks down wih pakistan, pakistan does see it as having an incentive to have some chaos and afghanistan and have been more than willing to work through barely under very

violent jihadist groups in the past and sees that as a way to extend its own influence into one of its more important neighbors. gerry: a lot of people worry about the afghan citizens who have been supportive of the united states translators, people who assisted u.s. forces and administratorss there. that they can be targeted. how much of a concern is that does the u.s. have an obligatio. to those people? >> i think it's a big concern, the united states does have an obligation considering the numbers being thrown around about the increases in refugee numbers coming to theef united states, some people say 50000, some say 100,000, then there's lawful immigration, and unlawful immigration, certainly we can take the people who risk their own lives to help us in afghanistan, these are by definition modernist pro-american people and we would be vastly compounding the tragedy of c afghanistan if thee people were to be left behind to come under the control of the

taliban because there's not a lot of mercy going around in that country. gerry: christian whiton, thank you very much forn joining us. up next new york governor andrew cuomo is defending blocking the release of the true number of nursing home deaths in his state while of course he blames president trump. accuracy in media president adam guillette weighs in that. >> always known he's kind of a creep and kind of a bully and so when all of this is coming out and really makes you look at the political environment and say why is he getting away withli this. it's a wishlist on wheels. a choice that requires no explanation.

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blaming the trump administration. take a listen. >> we did not want and an accurate number because everybody would say it's inaccurate, this was all politics and all a political football but morphed into an investigation. gerry: more on this accuracy in media president adam guillette, you are the governor cuomo insists his team was taking their time to get the numbers absolutely correct before they give the correct numbers of deaths and nursing homes, do you buy that. >> i don't believe anything that monster says, previously people were getting sick from covid now we get sick from hearing that man talk, everything he says is a lie his policy cost thousands of deaths, he covered it up now under federal investigation, thank goodness but it speaks to privilege, they think they can get away with anything in the media lets them do just that.

>> former president trump was behind political investigations, blame it all on trump and bill barr was a political operative and this was done because they were fearful because the trump administration was going to come after them for political reasons. >> how long are we going to have to listen to these lies, the man has to go, what i want to know where is the cancel culture crowd, the twitter mob online, the woke folks go after people for old jokes that were made ten years ago, this is a guy who caused thousands of deaths and sexually harassed or assaulted a half-dozen women all while using government resources to write a book on leadership, when are they going to cancel him. gerry: it is extraordinary, they have these stories and under multiple investigation, sexual harassment, the nursing home death is under investigation, he seems to be toughing this out, he is up again talking about running again for the democratic

nomination, it is pretty remarkable and just as it does with joe biden, it covers for it. >> that's exactly right, when these politicians think they can get away with anything, they will try everything, that's exactly what he's done he thinks the media will let up on it, i'm glad this channel is still covering it had accuracy media we've been trying to keep the story live we had a mobile billboard parked in front of the enemies because the worst award given since he gotng a grammy ad he got an emmy for his press conferences, we had a mobile billboard that said cuomo lied, thousands died cuomo lied.com, we've been interviewing the family members of his victims and we will make sure this man is held accountable. gerry: do you think there's any chance, the media has moved on from these stories, do you think there is any chance that the pressure can be part of it, part

of the problem as i see it, he's a captive of the left and the new york democratic party. he has to go along with whatever they want, he did it over the budget and taxes and the handouts for the illegal immigrants in the state so he suits them, is suits the left to keep themte in place and they kw he's only there by their permission. >> are happy to have him around because they know who go along with what he likes, what does that say about this man, the new york times has gone after them, democrats have called for his resignation, how bad you have to be that you were once a media darling and members of your ownd party want you to go, that is a new level of her rent this behavior, if the pressure is kept up and we kept the story live in if they revoke his enemy, eventually he's going to have to go, investigations going on and i think we might see an

impeachment which would be a wonderful thing to see, politicians must know that they can't get away with this sort of thing. gerry: the contest of the media coverage aas year ago of andrew cuomo and ron desantis, the governor of florida on every single measure, deaths, hospitalization, seriousness of covid and it's clear that the santas got a job in the media treated desantis as a monster in andrew cuomo as a hero. >> i'm a proud floridian, when we ran the stories about how horrible it was that we were reopening the beaches in florida, what's more dangerous than being outside socially distant swimming in the ocean. forcing nursing homes to accept covid positive patients, if you look at the death totals from cuomo's actions versus anything that might've come from socially distancing in the sand it is

morally outrageous the way the media covers the stories they treat as floridians like were fools and tree cuomo -like use of savior and the man is a lying murderer who potentially sexily assaulted women and sm ford are having a darn good time. gerry: i remember him getting honored for their questionable performances and i know exactly what you mean. thank you for joining us. gerry: charlie hurt is here to tell us what he think about a college professor who prorated the student for calling police heroes. >> they got away with it and never been convicted. the person who has family members who are police officers. >> i won't call anybody. ♪

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gerry: the college student in

southern california speaking out berated by his professor during a zoom class for calling police heroes.e the student told the daily wire it happened when he was giving a presentation to his communication class about cancel culture and how it's touring the country apart. watch this. >> i think cops are heroes and have to have a difficult job. >> all of them. >> i would say a good majority of them, you have ten people in every business -- >> weight. >> a lot of police officers have committed atrocious crimes and with it. >> think about the person has family members who are police officers. >> professor who would you call. >> i wouldn't call anybody. >> joining me too discuss washington times opinion editor charlie hurt, thank you for joining us, that doesn't look like the spirit of open intellectual inquiry that you

are supposed toin be providing. >> nothing of the sort, i don't know whether to be depressed or thrilled, and looks absolutely ridiculous and the teacher looks like a kindergartner having a temperk tantrum but on the brigt side you have a young man like braden alice who is acting like the adult and calmly entertaining the teacher in your idiot questions and political agenda and he's calmly walking her through everything, i'm torn don't know whether to be, obviously it's distressing to consider the state of education in america today but if anything can over, it's gotta be student like braden alice. gerry: we are sometimes in the media accused of picking extreme examples to make a point that these cases come up and seem extreme and portray universities in a bad light, this

unfortunately is pretty standard practice, isn't it. >> i wish this was an extreme example, if not i have a child who is at a prestigious university in this country right now and the stories that i hear about what goes on in the classroom, it is shocking and i feel kinda stupid as a parent because you write the checks for tuition and you realize what it is you're supporting but it's absolutely absurd and literally the only hope for an adult in this classroom is for a child like braden alice to stand up, at one point he's telling her the history of police department the reason we have police departments is because they were designed for catching slaves 150 years ago, that is so not job, i've never heard anything like this, the idea that she's going

to make up a fantasy like this and present it as something she's going to teach to students, good lord. gerry: it is wacko but is becoming a part of the curriculum, police department in this country that were even founded into after the civil war and the idea that that was their role is completely absurd. >> half the country did not have slaves. >> exactly. >> let me ask you something, the irony, the bigger irony of the whole story, braden alice was given a presentation about how counsel culture is tearing the country apart, he couldn't of had a better real-time demonstration of his case, could he. >> it was aun perfect example, sadly i don't think she was in on the joke, of course the teacher took over the entire ten minute. to berate him and never the any other student get in, is there any more perfect time when your

student college, let's say braden had the wrong idea, he did not, when you're supposed to have wrong ideas and you have a discussion with your class and you work it out, it's a wonderful way of learning but no other student could get a word and because this moron was so busy berating him not to mention bullying him, as i look at that that's bullying and braden did a marvelous job of remaining calm, talking to her addressing her idiot questions and talking to her like she was a rational intelligent human being which clearly she is not. gerry: she's become the most famous professor in the country, probably not to her advantage. joining us.r after months of a record-breaking surge of migrants at the southern border, president biden claims the crisis at the border is under control, former acting ice director tom homan is here next. >> they have invited a crisis at

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gerry: after several months of record increases of migrants seeking to enter the united states, president biden says the situation isde under control and once again he blames president trump for the migrant surge. watch this. >> it is way down, we've now gotten control, for example they didn't plan for which it comes every year the flow, they did not have the beds that were available. they did not plan for the overflow, they did not plan for the department of health and human services that had places to take the kid from the border patrol and put them in beds with their security and people that can take care of them, there is a significant change right now, significant change in the circumstance for children coming to and at the border. gerry: let's bring in former acting director of ice tom homan, now we know the problem

was all president trump's administration for not providing isenough beds, that's only criss of the border. >> first of all he doesn't know what's going on, he is just lying because nothing is under control and the border, the department of homeland security has no control of the border, the criminal cartel in mexico control our southern border and that's because president biden gave it toou them. i wish they would let me interview him, the statement he made president trump got rid of these beds, the reason president trump didn't have all these child beds is because he stopped it. gerry: they didn't need them. >> he secured the border, children, and across-the-board is 70% on donald trump and up 40% over joe biden. he didn't need it, did he enforce the laws, we had a right to be a sovereign country, the border patrol had the right to enforce the laws.

gerry: biden kamala harris think the way to save all of this is to spend a lot t of money in guatemala and honduras and el salvador to somehow help them with their security and make sure the potential migrants don't leave those countries, what you make of that. >> t.done there, we've done it three or four times it does i nt work, when he makes promises i'm in a put a moratorium on deportation and i'm not gonna let ice rescue i took 9%, you are knocking to be detained, you may beget free healthcare, you will get amnestybe in daca, when you make those promises i don't care what you do in central america, people will come to the greatest nation on earth because of the promises he made, spending more money to the central america countries don't make sense, what are they gonna send to mexico, last year mexico received over $40 billion,

$40 billion remittance payments from illegal aliens working in the united states and put their money met on her back to mexico and their families, these people don't have two provide social services, they get three or $4 billion from the united states, you cannot buy these countries out because they're making enough money to the illegal population. gerry: very briefly, everything looks as the administration is quite happy to see the significant numbers of additional people entering the country illegally, it looks like it, doesn't it. >> is by design, they have been planning this as open borders, they're not gonna stop the surge, the get really good at releasing people quickly, when the mediaia shows up will say nothing this year, no overcrowding, they will not stop it because they do not want to stop it. gerry: thank you very much indeed, look forward to speaking to you again. gerry: coming up at 9:00 o'clock on the wall street journal at large, the new study that could change your mind about lockdowns, tonightdy my interviw with the author who is a professor at the university of

chicago who served in the trump white house as former chief economist. take a look at this. >> the state at home orders not only did in or missed damage to the economy but they actually may have made the pandemic worse and last longer, can you expend? >> just from the house perspective, they told us to stay at home but nobody just check is at home being healthier than being at work, the workplaces and the being favor because they were requiring masks, changing the ventilation, putting up the physical barrier, screening people when they come in these are things people don't that home, ends up being out of work is a better place to get the infection them being in work. gerry: the full interview and president biden's first 100 days, please join me at 9:00 o'clock right here for the wall street journal at large on

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